Consciousness as a non-Entity

Consciousness is the faculty for perceiving that which exists---this means that consciousness is not an entity. Entities are self-sufficient existents---consciousness is a faculty possessed by certain existents. Just as "red" or "hot" cannot exist on their own--apart from a thing that is red or hot--so too can "intelligent," "aware," "possessing a conceptual faculty," not exist on their own. This doesn't mean that consciousness lacks identity---existence is identity, so every existent has identity, and consciousness certainly exists. Rather, what this means is that consciousness is not a thing---it is not a he, she, it, it is an attribute: this thing has consciousness---one of it's attributes is that it is aware of existence.